Dear Parents,
If you'd like parenting tips for building character with art, look inside. You'll have fun with your child, teach love for art, and help your child become creative too.
For beginning artists (K-5th grade)
Discuss the project with your child. Let your child take the lead in finding the materials and arranging them.
Some artists create art from old junk, things they have found on the beach, in the woods, or along the roadside.
- Go on a treasure hunt outside to find things that could be used in a collage, a picture where shapes and colors are pasted on a piece of paper or cardboard: sticks and leaves, flowers to be pressed, feathers, berries to be crushed to use as paint, pebbles, shells, pieces of blunt-edged metal.
- Go on a treasure hunt inside to find other things such as scraps of paper, buttons, pieces of cloth, ribbon.
- Look for some heavy cardboard or wood to use as a backing.
- Have your child lay out the materials in a design on the backing. Have your child move things around until the design is what s/he wants.
- Use heavy duty glue. Have your child glue the items on the backing.
How is this for building the creative side of character?
Let me know how your art project turned out. Was it fun?
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With warm wishes for your parenting success,
Jean
Jean Tracy, MSS
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